Verdon attended
McGill University as an undergraduate and graduated with honors with a double major in Mathematics & Physics. He attended
University of Waterloo for graduate studies where he completed Master's work in 2017 at the
Institute for Quantum Computing and continued with Achim Kempf as his PhD supervisor. In 2017, Verdon co-founded Everettian Technologies and became its chief scientific officer. The company was named after
Hugh Everett III, and was an early Canadian start-up focused on
quantum machine learning solutions. He also had a side venture into
NFTs related to
quantum information, which provided capital for his later startup Extropic AI. Verdon has worked at Google and had primary responsibility for theoretical work on the team that introduced the TensorFlow Quantum library for quantum machine learning. During his time at
Google X, Verdon introduced and worked on quantum
graph neural networks, and quantum Hamiltonian-based models. He has several patents with Google X covering quantum computing, quantum machine learning, and signal processing. In 2022, Verdon and Trevor Mccourt co-founded Extropic AI, which focuses on building a thermodynamic hardware platform for accelerating AI research. The company recently announced the completion of a $14.1 million seed round. In 2025,
Wired reported that Verdon was continuing to work through Extropic on a new kind of chip that handles probabilistic
bits instead of deterministic bits. ==Effective accelerationism==